University Extension in Agriculture
The University of California is doing excellent work for the agriculturists of the state through their Extension in Agriculture of the College of Agriculture. For the year closing June 30, 1909, there were 93 farmers’ institutes held, covering 34 counties of the state. The total number of sessions in these institutes was 297, with a total attendance of 28,294. In addition to the regular institute work, a farmers’ demonstration train was run in cooperation with the Southern Pacific Company. These cars were filled with exhibits covering the matter of better cereal productions, soils and fertilizers, diseases of animals, creamery work, insect pests and plant diseases, spraying, re-forestation, and the eucalypts, and other subjects of an instructive nature. Attached to this train was a passenger coach used for lecturing purposes. During the year the University Extension in Agriculture came into personal contact with 67,564 individuals in the state. This certainly ought to be appreciated by the farmers and fruit-growers of the state.